In theory we understand people, but in practice we can't put up with them, I thought, deal with them for the most part reluctantly and always treat them from our point of view. We should observe and treat people not from our point of view but from all angles, I thought, associate with them in such a way that we can say we associate with them so to speak in a completely unbiased way, which however isn't possible, since we actually are always biased against everybody.
Thomas BernhardI did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself.
Thomas BernhardThe anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.
Thomas BernhardThe thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents.
Thomas Bernhard